Motivational Quotes

Experience

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Experience

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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By far the best proof is experience.